radicle-heartwood-lfs/radicle-cli/examples/rad-auth.md

Initializing a new identity with rad-auth. The example below is run with RAD_PASSPHRASE set.

$ rad auth --alias "alice"

Initializing your radicle 👾 identity

✓ Creating your Ed25519 keypair...
✓ Your Radicle DID is did:key:z6MknSLrJoTcukLrE435hVNQT4JUhbvWLX4kUzqkEStBU8Vi. This identifies your device.

To create a radicle project, run `rad init` from a git repository.

You can get the above information at all times using the self command:

$ rad self --did
did:key:z6MknSLrJoTcukLrE435hVNQT4JUhbvWLX4kUzqkEStBU8Vi

You can also show your alias:

$ rad self --alias
alice